ROH Newswire for 7/23

[J-man]

July 23rd: Ring of Honor heads to Toronto, Ontario for "Death Before Dishonor VII" weekend starting tomorrow (Friday) night. Both events will be held at the Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main Street, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2W2. Bret "Hitman" Hart will make his first ROH appearance on Friday night for a special meet & greet autograph session from 6-8 PM. The live wrestling event starts at 8:00 PM. On the show you'll see ROH World Champion Austin Aries defend his title in a Four Corner Survival Match against Nigel McGuinness, Tyler Black, & Jerry Lynn. Lance Storm comes out of retirement to team with Kevin Steen vs. Chris Hero & Davey Richards. Other bouts include: El Generico vs. Sonjay Dutt; Kenny King vs. Kenny Omega; Jimmy Rave, Claudio Castagnoli, Bison Smith, & Joey Ryan vs. The Necro Butcher, Colt Cabana, Brent Albright, & Grizzly Redwood in an 8 Man Elimination Tag; Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. The Super Smash Brothers; and D-Lo Brown vs. Frankie The Mobster. Live event tickets and autograph tickets with Bret Hart will be available to purchase at the door on the night of the show.

July 23rd: On Saturday night "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair will be live in Toronto for a special meet & greet session from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Ted Reeve Ar ena. The live events kicks off at 7:30 PM and will feature Lance Storm vs. Chris Hero; Nigel McGuinness vs. Tyler Black; the First Annual Toronto Gauntlet featuring D-Lo Brown vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. The Necro Butcher vs. Jimmy Rave vs. Jerry Lynn vs. Davey Richards; Colt Cabana vs. Joey Ryan; Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright; Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. The Super Smash Brothers; plus ROH World Champion Austin Aries, Jay & Mark Briscoe; Kenny Omega, Rhett Titus, Kenny King, & more. Live event tickets and autograph tickets with Ric Flair will be available to purchase at the door on the night of the show.

July 23rd: This week's episode of "Ring of Honor Wrestling" on HDNet features a tremendous must see main event featuring Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black. This is their third singles bout on HDNet and certainly won't disappoint. The first meeting went to a time limit draw, and their second encounter ended in a double countout. Will there be a winner in the rubber match? Find out this Saturday night at 8 PM. For more information please visit: http://www.hd.net/ringofhonor.html.

July 23rd: In case you missed the huge announcement this morning on the main page at < U>http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/article.aspx?id=2918, Ring of Honor and Pro Wrestling NOAH have done it once again! Officials on both sides worked fast to sign KENTA versus “That Young Knockout Kid” Chris Hero for August 15th in Philly. You don’t want to miss this one as it is the first of six television main events to be filmed during the next set of “ROH on HDNet” National Television Tapings. Hero has a talked himself into a full plate for sure, with Lance Storm this weekend, KENTA on 8/15, and lurking in the background, Eddie Kingston. Get your tickets now for 8/15 at the Arena in South Philly and witness the greatness of KENTA and Hero!

July 23rd: The Ring of Honor Twitter account has 4,200 followers. Will you be 4,201? Go to www.twitter.com/rohonhdnet and connect with ROH! Even ‘The Hog’ has! Don’t like Twitter? Check out www.facebook.com/ringofhonor and become one of over 2,300 ROH fans on Facebook!

July 23rd: Jon Davis of the Dark City Fight Club has been blessed with what his doctors are calling a “miraculous” recovery. As you know, Davis underwent extensive surgery to repair several dislocations and destroyed ligaments in his wrist suff ered in a match against Kevin Steen and Jay Briscoe at “A Cut Above”. At that time, doctors questioned whether Davis would ever regain full strength and mobility in the wrist. We are happy to report that Davis under went extensive rehabilitation, and with the aid of a brace, can now return with full medical clearance. The Dark City Fight Club has been added to the Dayton/Chicago events on September 18th and 19th, as well as the Boston/New York events on September 25th and 26th. The ROH Tag Team division has never been stronger!

July 23rd: The latest sale at ROHWrestling.com is Buy 2, Get 1 Free on all Ring of Honor DVD's. This includes the latest release "Validation" from 5/9/09 from Edison, NJ. Matches include The American Wolves vs. Bryan Danielson & Kevin Steen for the World Tag Team Titles; Jerry Lynn vs. Jay Briscoe for the ROH World Title; Joey Ryan vs. Colt Cabana; Chris Hero vs. Sonjay Dutt; plus more. For complete details on the sale go to: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/article.aspx?id=2643.

July 23rd: We’ll be back next week with the aftermath of Death Before Dishonor VII, as well as more matches leading into the next set of ROH on HDNet Tapings on August 14th and 15th in Philly!

[DUKE NUKEM]

thanks for this J-man